RHEA-2017:0423 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

A new Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Image is now available for for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras.

Description

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Image is a minimal, fully supported base image where several of the traditional operating system components, such as python and systemd, have been removed. The Atomic Image also includes a simple package manager called microdnf, which can add or update packages as needed.

This enhancement update adds the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Image to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras. (BZ#1419975)

All users who require Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Image are advised to install this new image.

Solution

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux container image provided by this update can be
downloaded from the Red Hat Container Registry at registry.access.redhat.com
using the "docker pull" command. Dockerfiles and scripts should be amended
either to refer to this new image specifically, or to the latest image
generally.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1419975 - initial build of rhel7-atomic-docker

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)